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Measuring norm pluralism and perceived polarization in US politics. [PDF]

open access: yesPNAS Nexus
Panizza F   +3 more
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Microeconomics, History of [PDF]

open access: possible, 2015
This article provides a brief overview of the history of microeconomics, starting from the late eighteenth century when its key foundations were laid. Without intending to be comprehensive, the article outlines landmarks and milestones in the building of the basic principles of today’s knowledge, highlighting challenges faced and open questions.
Paola Tubaro, Paola Tubaro, Paola Tubaro
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Microeconomics and Psychology

The Journal of Economic Education, 2011
Psychologists such as the Nobel Prize–winner Daniel Kahneman challenge the major assumptions of microeconomics: the rational pursuit of self-interest given unchanging tastes. One may explore these issues through a questionnaire that may be distributed in class. How many of your students behave as the psychologists predict? Should economists adapt their
Steven R. Beckman   +4 more
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The metaphysics of microeconomics

Monist, 1995
L'A. etudie les elements qui entrent dans la composition d'une metaphysique de la microeconomie definie comme l'ensemble des entites quantifiables qui determinent la verite d'une theorie economique. Au-dela des aspects methodologiques et epistemologiques, une metaphysique de l'economie doit etablir une distinction entre les faits economiques et leur ...
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On the microeconomics of specialization

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004
Abstract We consider individual consumer–producers who operate within a perfectly competitive market economy with transaction costs, presenting several propositions that characterize the optimal production and consumption plans of such a consumer–producer.
Dimitrios Diamantaras, Robert P. Gilles
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The Returns to Education: Microeconomics [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Economic Surveys, 2003
In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in “human capital” and the estimation of the rate of return to that private investment. While the literature is replete with studies that estimate the rate of return using regression methods where the estimated return is obtained as the coefficient on a years of education variable in a
Harmon, C., Oosterbeek, H., Walker, I.
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